. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. LOG C*BIN ON THE NATIONAL ROAD WHEEE THE POET WAS BOEN. Riley Homestead in Greenfield, 1856 THE RHYME OF -CHILDHOOD 35 How criminal, said Riley, commenting on theschoolboy experience, to cramp the imagination of achild in a barren back-lot like that when a world ofships and singing birds and meadow fielda may be hadfor the asking. The secret of the. whole matter is this,whether it be the lesson for the child or the book forthe man—it must be interesting. A vital opinion,paralleled by the observation of He
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. LOG C*BIN ON THE NATIONAL ROAD WHEEE THE POET WAS BOEN. Riley Homestead in Greenfield, 1856 THE RHYME OF -CHILDHOOD 35 How criminal, said Riley, commenting on theschoolboy experience, to cramp the imagination of achild in a barren back-lot like that when a world ofships and singing birds and meadow fielda may be hadfor the asking. The secret of the. whole matter is this,whether it be the lesson for the child or the book forthe man—it must be interesting. A vital opinion,paralleled by the observation of Herbert Spencer, thattoo often our system of education drags thd child awayfrom, the facts in which it is interested. Bud Rileywas Spencers self-taught London gamin gathering out-of-school wisdom for himself. When Riley became associate editor of a oountypaper, he reiterated his protest in a half-column, ToParents and Preceptors: We will shortly issue, he wrote in humorous veinin the first paragraph, a little educational work, whichwe design shall take the place of McGuffeys FirstReader. We have nothing against McGuffey, but welove the ins
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